Oil temps under extreme driving (i.e. at the track)
08-01-2001, 05:11 PM
#1
Safety Car
Thread Starter
What range of oil temps are you guys experiencing under sustained high-RPM driving?
On the street, I usually run between 200 and 220 F with an occasional stab into the 230's. But at MIS on a fairly hot (85 F) day I was seeing oil temps that I considered to bee pretty high.
After a few laps I hit 275 F, and by the middle of the session (20 min or so) I was approaching 300 F. I would slow it down for a few laps to cool her off, but still, I averaged around 280. I thought these cars had oil coolers.
All of these readings were shown by the digital oil temp guage, of course. How accurate is it?
Just for referance, my coolant temps stayed right around 200 F. No issue there at all.
TIA,
-Jon
On the street, I usually run between 200 and 220 F with an occasional stab into the 230's. But at MIS on a fairly hot (85 F) day I was seeing oil temps that I considered to bee pretty high.
After a few laps I hit 275 F, and by the middle of the session (20 min or so) I was approaching 300 F. I would slow it down for a few laps to cool her off, but still, I averaged around 280. I thought these cars had oil coolers.
All of these readings were shown by the digital oil temp guage, of course. How accurate is it?
Just for referance, my coolant temps stayed right around 200 F. No issue there at all.
TIA,
-Jon
08-01-2001, 09:37 PM
#3
Burning Brakes
I know that on a 100 degree day at Seattle International in my stock 88, I saw 300 degrees oil temp and 275 degrees water temp. The oil temp warning light cam on at 300. I backed off and let things cool down at that point, but I never experianced any problem as a result. I changed the oil as soon as I got home and the car has run flawlessly for 40,000 more miles since.
08-01-2001, 09:58 PM
#4
Jon,
You need "real" oil cooler.
Go to racing section and ther are lots of posts on this issues.
I am doing mine at this time as well.
I am using Fluidine cooler that I purchased at the www.hoerr-racing.com
Hope this helps
Ziggy
You need "real" oil cooler.
Go to racing section and ther are lots of posts on this issues.
I am doing mine at this time as well.
I am using Fluidine cooler that I purchased at the www.hoerr-racing.com
Hope this helps
Ziggy
08-02-2001, 02:26 AM
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With synthetics 300 is generally considered the limit. I really wouldn't want to run that high except in unexpected circumstances, and would agree, you should check into a "real" - racing type - oil cooler. I would shoot for oil temps no higher than 270 or so with a good synthetic oil.
08-02-2001, 06:40 AM
#6
Team Owner
The higest oil temp I've ever seen is 252. That was in REALLY hot weather in VERY stop and go traffic. My coolant also got up to 244. I decided to suffer for my car for a few minutes and turned on the heater and rolled down the windows. That got my oil/water temps down to 230/210, repectively.
08-02-2001, 11:06 AM
#7
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